Written questions
3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Jan 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Self-employed: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on steps to reduce regulatory burdens on self-employed people; and if he will make a statement.
5 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to provide advice to parents on identifying which childcare support system is best for them; and if he will make a statement.
5 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to provide guidance to families with variable working hours and incomes on choosing between universal credit and the tax-free childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement.
2 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if HM Revenue and Customs will include the childcare element of universal credit in the online calculator it is developing alongside the tax-free childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement.
2 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress HM Revenue and Customs has made in developing an online childcare support calculator to replace its current calculator; and whether the proposed new calculator will be ready by September 2015.
18 Dec 2014 · Cabinet Office
Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made on implementing his Department's efficiency agenda.
18 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobseeker's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants participating in the Work Programme have received more than one sanction since June 2011.
18 Dec 2014 · Cabinet Office
Jobseeker's Allowance
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people claimed jobseeker's allowance aged (a) 16, (b) 17, (c) 18, (d) 19, (e) 20, (f) 21, (g) 22, (h) 23, (i) 24, (j) 25 in 2013-14; and, in each case how many left the benefit within six months.
18 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the recent change in the number of 16 to 24 year olds unemployed for more than two years.
18 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Vacancies: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job applications have been made through Universal Jobmatch from the EU-wide jobs portal since November 2012.
17 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding his Department allocated to local authorities for Universal Credit Delivery Partnership agreements in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
17 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, of the 22,900 claiming universal credit up to 13 November 2014, in how many cases the claimant has initially been unemployed and then moved into employment during their claim.
17 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who claimed universal credit up to 13 November 2014 have not accepted the terms of their claimant commitment.
17 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the rise in employment and support allowance claimants.
16 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department plans to take to make benefit claimants aware of (a) short-term benefit advances and (b) hardship payments.
16 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Programme: Lone Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lone parents were referred to the Work Programme between June 2011 and June 2014; and how many such parents achieved a sustained job outcome.
16 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the difference in the number of short-term benefit allowance payments in 2013-14 and the number of crisis loan alignment payments in each of the previous s
16 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what safeguards are in place to ensure that a person who loses their employment and support allowance as a result of a sanction will not also lose their housing benefit because of a misunderstanding by
16 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many instances of fraud have been recorded in the universal credit programme since April 2013.
12 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in households with dependent children claiming jobseeker's allowance have been sanctioned in each year since October 2012; and how many people in households with dependent children claim
12 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason self-employed people are not eligible for Access to Work support.
12 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 8 December 2014 to Question 217129, in what circumstances universal credit claimants will be permitted to undertake paid work which is regarded as therapeutic.
12 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobseeker's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in households with dependent children claiming jobseeker's allowance have been sanctioned since October 2012; and how many such people have subsequently had their sanction rescinded.
12 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households with dependent children claiming employment and support allowance have been sanctioned since December 2012; and how many such households have subsequently had their sanction rescinde
11 Dec 2014 · HM Treasury
Minimum Wage
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many investigations for National Minimum Wage non-payment have resulted in the issue of a notice of underpayment in each month since October 2013.
11 Dec 2014 · HM Treasury
Minimum Wage: Newham
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many notices of underpayment have been issued to businesses in the London Borough of Newham for non-payment of the National Minimum Wage in each of the last six years; and how many employees were covered in each
11 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will increase the maximum magistrates' court fines for non-payment of the national minimum wage.
11 Dec 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many employers who were issued with notices of underpayment for the national minimum wage and were eligible for naming and shaming under the arrangements introduced since 1 October 201
10 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Abduction: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to respond to the recommendation of the Law Commission that wrongful retention of children should be a criminal offence.
10 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216814, whether he plans to implement a further IT solution to ensure that local authorities have the information needed to suspend housing benefit
Source: official written-questions record.